The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 5
In one of his wanderings he had made friends with a hare, and many an hour the two passed together, when the man was resting by the roadside, eating his dinner.
Who acts: forest, man · What happens: make, pass, rest, eat, wander · To what, where: friends, dinner
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hour | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wanderings | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wanderings | acl:relcl |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hare | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friends | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hour | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hour | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hour | amod |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hour | det |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 two | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hour | appos |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 two | acl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 passed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 resting | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 resting | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resting | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 resting | aux |
| 27 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 passed | advcl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 roadside | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 roadside | det |
| 30 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resting | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 eating | punct |
| 32 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 resting | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 34 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eating | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 hour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | forest | friends with a hare | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wandering=Product | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | together property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rest | past · progressive | the man | by the roadside | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | the man not said here | forest's dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wander | forest | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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